We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ and I just loved this instrument.
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.
As a people of faith we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past the record of truths revealed by experience is eminently practical as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes such enchanted musical instruments as the ears and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Every contrivance of man every tool every instrument every utensil every article designed for use of each and every kind evolved from a very simple beginnings.